Commonwealth Life Ins. Co. v. Byck

STEWART, Justice.

On June 1, 1949, appellant, Commonwealth Life Insurance Company, issued to the police pension board of the city of Louisville a group insurance policy by the terms of which, among other things, the company agreed to pay $3,000 upon the death of any police officer of the city, and, furthermore, it bound itself to pay an additional indemnity of $12,000 if the death of such officer resulted within one year “directly and independently of all other causes” from an injury received in line of duty after May 31, 1949, “effected solely and exclusively through external, violent and…